The next big obstacle was our home. It definitely made the top five for me, not because of the structure that it is, but because of the time we spend here. The conversations that will shape my children, the laughter that will fill memories forever, it's ours and I love it so. But, there was always a big elephant in the room, my heart longed for an organized space, but we found ourselves in the midst of chaos on a weekly basis. It's taxing and it really takes a toll on everything. It makes it hard to focus on the things that matter, because I'm half-way focused on what I'm doing and half-way focused on all the other things I need to be doing. And the things is, I felt … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: health, refined
Last time, we chose our five. The five areas to prioritize in our life. As a refresher, mine were: Faith Health Family Friends Home Those are pretty broad, but I'm going to spend some time breaking down each one of those during the refine process. Some took a little longer than others, and I didn't exactly go in the correct order. I noticed when I tried to put time and effort into one of the five, I had a huge feeling of being overwhelmed by another. For me, I listened to the one that was loudest first, the one that I knew I had to tackle to ease my mind. Health. My personal health. Not that my health was in shambles, but I wasn't putting it … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: repurposing
So here's where things started to shift for me. When I looked at how I spent my day, I wasn't exactly shocked. I did manage to check a ton of things off of a to-do list that was too-long for any hope of sanity. I half-way completed about a billion different things, I started organizing the bathroom, cleaned out the car (but Jud woke up before I could finish and vacuum), worked on a project I had volunteered for (while stopping to check my emails, yet never respond to a single email) throughout the process. I don't think I gave my focus to one single task throughout the course of the entire day. When I first started the time management exercise, I thought I would just revamp my … [Read more...]